Welcome to Digital Library of India (DLI)

Digital Library of India (DLI) is a digital collection of freely accessible rare books collected from various libraries in India.
DLI project started in early 2000 with the vision to archive all the significant literary, artistic and scientific works of mankind
and to preserve digitally and make them available freely for every one over Internet for education, study, appreciation and for future
generations. As a first step in realizing this vision, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable
collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages.
The Project was initiated by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and subsequently taken over by the
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY),
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Govt. of India.
The idea was also to create a test bed for researchers to improve scanning techniques, optical character recognition,
intelligent indexing and in general to promote Indian Language Technology Research.

One of the goals of the Digital Library of India is to provide support for full text indexing and searching based on OCR (optical character recognition) technologies available. The availability of online search allows users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably thus enhancing student's success in their research endeavors. This 24x7 resource would also provide an excellent test bed for language processing research in areas such as machine translation, optical character recognition, summarization, speech and hand writing recognition, intelligent indexing, and information retrieval in Indian languages.